Has anyone had any experience with the live stock cars for cattle and poultry that were released by Broadway Limited?
Yes, one of our clubmembers has at least one of the cattle cars that he sometimes runs during our open houses. The "mooing" as the car goes by makes a subtle but interesting effect.
Oh I love watching stock car racing. I think they call it Nascar, those guys are fast.
What's the mooing all about anyways?
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Motley Oh I love watching stock car racing. I think they call it Nascar, those guys are fast. What's the mooing all about anyways?
If you watch the race to the finish, is it not tradition for the winning driver to have a glass of a white liquid substance? (or do I have the wrong type of race?) The white liquid substance comes from the 4-legged animal that moos as it is being milked back there on pit row.
maxman Motley: Oh I love watching stock car racing. I think they call it Nascar, those guys are fast. What's the mooing all about anyways? If you watch the race to the finish, is it not tradition for the winning driver to have a glass of a white liquid substance? (or do I have the wrong type of race?) The white liquid substance comes from the 4-legged animal that moos as it is being milked back there on pit row.
Motley: Oh I love watching stock car racing. I think they call it Nascar, those guys are fast. What's the mooing all about anyways?
Man that is haliarious!!
All my co-workers are wondering why I'm laughing at my computer screen. I just spilled my beer too.
parts323 Has anyone had any experience with the live stock cars for cattle and poultry that were released by Broadway Limited?
Parts323...
These were released several years ago and cam e with both sound and non-sound configurations, in several roads.
I have two of the PRR non-sound and one PRR ' Hog' car with sound - its a pretty cool feature but what's really fun is running three or four together ! As the car is ran behind the train, the wheels pick up current from the rails to generate a recorded 'sound affect' . Once the train stops, an onboard capacitor, stores enough 'charge' to keep the sounds 'going' for several minutes.
You can still find these at train shows and usually go for around 65.00 to 75.00 in like new condition...less for the non-sound cars.
The cars themselves are very nicely done and are well worth the investment if you like this era and the fun of the 'live ' animal noises.
I highly recommend a few.
Have fun!
HeritageFleet1
I'd be inclined to remove the sound unit and install it at a livestock pen.
Thanks for the info guys. My local hobby store has one of each, and I was thinking about buying one.
Frankly, they're a HOOT! (or a MOO! ). I have one that I use at the head of my seasonal stock train, and it gives the impression that the other 10 cars are doing the same thing.
Mark's idea of taking the sound out and putting it under a cattle pen makes sense, also, but it's really a kick to follow those confused livestock around the railroad while you're running the car. The sound isn't overpowering, BTW, it's rather subtle.
But it's a lot of fun.
Tom
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I got one when they first came out a few years ago. Grandkids loved it, but have outgrown it- neat though!
Motley All my co-workers are wondering why I'm laughing at my computer screen. I just spilled my beer too.
Wait just a minute. You spilled your beer around your computer screen and co-workers? What kind of job do you have?
Now, "I just got milk up my nose" would be something more appropriate for a workplace environment.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I have one and I like it, I do run a stock train now and then (at least I did on the old layout) and I think I'd like one or two more so the sound is spread out more throughout the train.
Only problem I had was not understanding that it has a DCC decoder, so you have to program an ID no. into it and call up that no. to get it start making sounds in DCC. Once you call it up, it seems to keep working as long as it's getting power from the track.
parts323Has anyone had any experience with the live stock cars for cattle and poultry that were released by Broadway Limited?
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/89603/1055602.aspx#1055602
Since then I have purchased six more cars with sound and four more without. That should tell you something. I believe it is a Pennsy prototype. I have a request in with BLI to do sheep sounds.
I inherited 5 of these from a client some years back. They were a conversation piece when I first got them. Novelty wore off and they were shelved. I did try to use one of them as a sound source along side a cattle corral but the cars have an electric eye of some sort that senses the car movement and I screwed around with the detector to try and make it work when stationary and gave up. Every once and awhile I'll sneak one onto the club layout when the die-hard scale guys are operating and it drives them bat s@#t.
MisterBeasley Motley: All my co-workers are wondering why I'm laughing at my computer screen. I just spilled my beer too. Wait just a minute. You spilled your beer around your computer screen and co-workers? What kind of job do you have? Now, "I just got milk up my nose" would be something more appropriate for a workplace environment.
Motley: All my co-workers are wondering why I'm laughing at my computer screen. I just spilled my beer too.
Never mind his job (although I'm curious). How do you guys manage to get only a part of a post copied into your reply? Whenever I highlight a portion of a post and then use the quote button, I get the entire posting quoted, not just the highlighted area.